ABOUT

ARUN SHENOY is a GRAMMY® Award nominated composer and record producer. Based in Singapore and also a California resident, his versatile production style spans genres as wide as rock and funk, to jazz and world music. Arun writes and produces music released as solo productions under his own name, as well as for other bands and solo artists. He is the founder and CEO of publishing firm Arun Shenoy Music Publishing (BMI) and record label Narked Records.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Shenoy’s debut world fusion production titled RUMBADOODLE released in 2012 secured a nomination at the 55th Annual GRAMMY® Awards alongside Larry Carlton, Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Norman Brown, and Chris Botti, the eventual winner. “Bliss”, Shenoyʼs follow up single from his Indian World Fusion project was launched by the Recording Academy via a Worldwide Exclusive First Look at GRAMMY.com in 2013.

OnJuly 1st, 2016, Shenoy released A STAGEY BANK AFFAIR, aconcept album and his first collaboration with THE GROOVE PROJECT, a musical supergroup of Shenoy’s long term collaborators. The Contemporary Jazz Funk Instrumental album presents an immersive audiovisual experience of the Bansuri Funk Music, Artwork, Animation, and Physical Packaging. Bansuri Funk is a sound stylized by the fusion of Funk, Jazz and Rock with a spicy hint of Worldly Pleasures, the latter being a reference to the blazing performance on the traditional Bansuri by acclaimed flautist Ravichandra Kulur.

Two singles have also been released so far from the album – “Sugar Free (feat. Uziel)” with a supporting animated music video on June 3rd, 2016, and “Mary Go Around” on March 1st 2017.

Shenoy has also collaborated with a diverse range of artists and producers from Matthew Shell to Sridhar, and also released with Kulur and Duke an eponymous debut single as a trio in 2014 under the moniker Soul’d. The music on “Soul’d” introduced the Bansuri Funk music to the world.

Shenoy has been featured twice in the best dressed list at the GRAMMY® Award red carpet arrivals, in 2014 by Zen Magazine and again in 2015 by Le Guide Noir.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Dates are currently being worked out for the release and promotion of “High Striker“, the third single to be released from A Stagey Bank Affair. Shenoy is also working on a collaborative single with American singer-songwriter Elizabeth Butler, as well as building up the roster of artists and sound recording catalog on his label, Narked Records.

AFFILIATIONS

Shenoy is a Breedlove artist, a showcase artist of SONY for their audio production suite, and endorses PreSonus, the premier American manufacturer of live and studio sound equipment.